Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya (russian: Мари́я Леони́довна Рудни́цкая; June 17, 1916 – January 1, 1983) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was a member of the

Leningrad Union of Artists Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg (russian: Санкт-Петербургский Союз художников) was established on August 2, 1932, as a creative union of the Leningrad artists and arts critics. Prior to 1959, it was called " Le ...

, regarded as one of representatives of the

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Biography

Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya was born June 17, 1916, in the city of

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, in family of railway engineer. In the years 1916-1927 Maria with her parents lived in Siberia for the construction of the

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. In 1932, after graduating from seven-year school Maria Rudnitskaya comes to Leningrad. In 1935 Maria Rudnitskaya entered at the

Tavricheskaya Art School Tavricheskaya Art School (russian: Таври́ческое худо́жественно-педагоги́ческое учи́лище) is a secondary art school in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad). From 1919 to 1961, it was located in a building at ...

, where she studied of A. Gromov, S. Bootler, V. Levitsky, V. Oreshnikov, and M. Aslamazian. In 1939 Maria Rudnitskaya graduated from Tavricheskaya Art School. In the same year she entered at the first cours of Department of Painting of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she studied of

Semion Abugov Semion Lvovich Abugov (russian: Семён Львович Абугов) (30 December 1877 in Byerazino, Minsk Governorate – 3 May 1950 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a memb ...

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Mikhail Bernshtein Mikhail Davidovich Bernshtein (russian: Михаил Давидович Бернштейн) (January 28, 1875, Rostov-on-Don – May 9, 1960, Leningrad) was a Soviet painter and art educator, who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the ...

, and

Igor Grabar Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (russian: И́горь Эммануи́лович Граба́рь, 25 March 1871 in Budapest – 16 May 1960 in Moscow) was a Russian post-impressionism, post-impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian ...

. In 1949, after a long break forced by the

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and evacuation, Maria Rudnitskaya graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in the studio of

Victor Oreshnikov Victor Mikhailovich Oreshnikov (russian: Виктор Михайлович Орешников) (January 7 ( O.S. January 20), 1904, Perm – March 15, 1987, Leningrad) was a Soviet Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, active member ...

, together with Nikolai Babasuk,

Rostislav Vovkushevsky Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky (russian: Ростисла́в Ива́нович Вовкуше́вский; March 22, 1917 – August 14, 2000) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of t ...

, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov,

Victor Teterin Victor Kuzmich Teterin (russian: Ви́ктор Кузьми́ч Тете́рин; October 25, 1922 in Bakharevo, Tver Province, Soviet Russia – October 1, 1991 in Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian painter, watercolorist, and art teacher, who l ...

, and other young artists. Her graduation work was genre painting named "Motherhood". Since 1949, Maria Rudnitskaya has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings, sketches done from nature. Maria Rudnitskaya tended to plein air painting. She has successfully worked in the genre of children's portraits. Her portraits of the inherent characteristics of precision, delicacy of tonal coloring and transferring of the plein air. Upon his return to Leningrad she taught first in the Secondary Art School, later at the Department of General Painting of the Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina. Maria Rudnitskaya was a member of the

since 1949. Maria Leonidovna Rudnitskaya died on January 1, 1983, in Leningrad at the sixty-seventh year of life. Her paintings reside in museums and private collections in England, France, Italy, in the U.S., Russia,''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7. and others.

References

Bibliography

* ''Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Volume 2.''- Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. - p. 287. * ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp. 135, 368, 388, 392-396, 407, 413, 415-417, 424. , . * ''Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005''. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007. p. 61. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rudnitskaya, Maria 1916 births 1983 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Soviet painters Socialist realist artists Leningrad School artists Tavricheskaya Art School alumni Repin Institute of Arts alumni Russian women artists Russian women painters Members of the Leningrad Union of Artists Soviet women artists 20th-century Russian women